On this day – January 8th, there are 15 people in my Family Tree who were born on this date, 6 of which who are now deceased. Those six (I won’t post the others since this is private information) are: Jacob Bushong – 1836, Sarah Ann Roudebush – 1839, Margaret M. Ruby – 1889, Earl Stern – 1896, Bernice Luella Harrison – 1907, and Harry Richardson Dean – 1912.

I have Family Tree Maker 16 so I went to VIEW>REPORTS>CUSTOM and created a report that included the name and the Reference Number. Then I went to FORMAT>SORT REPORT and did a sort on the Reference Number. So who was my Number 1000?

No one! I have a 999 and a 1001 but no 1000! I think that when I combined my two family files into one and then merged individuals number 1000 got lost in the shuffle! So my 999th person is Peter Valentine Bushong born June 1832 in Augusta County, Virginia to Abraham Bushong Sr. and Mary Christina Volland. Peter died on August 19, 1913 in Henry County, Indiana. He is my 3rd cousin 5 times removed. The 1001st person is Mary A. Fulvider – the sister-in-law of Peter Valentine Bushong! I have no birth or death dates for her. She married Peter’s brother, Samuel Bushong, on February 15, 1858 in Augusta County, Virginia. She is the wife of my 3rd cousin 5 times removed.